The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, BAFTA 2025
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband's job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl's body is found, she's pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Sandhya Suri
Sandhya Suri is a British-Indian film director. After earning a degree in mathematics, she worked as a teacher in Japan. Her experiences documenting this period on camera inspired her to study documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School. In 2005, she released the documentary I for India detailing her father's experiences as an 20th century Indian immigrant in the United Kingdom based on his own tape recordings. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Suri's second film, the silent 2018 documentary Around India with a Movie Camera, used archival British Film Institute footage to explore life in British India. That same year, she released the narrative short film The Field, which was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2019. Suri's narrative feature debut, Santosh was selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
